Guitar Links

Learn twelve bar blues

2009-07-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free has a new post on the twelve bar blues chord progression.

"Knowing your twelve bar blues chord progression is one of the best ways to get a handle on playing guitar. Once you understand the basic principles of blues guitar, you can start to experiment with improvising within the chord progressions and to put your own mark on the music."

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More sites to help you teach yourself guitar

2009-03-09T03:13:00.000-07:00

These Hubpages and Squidoo lenses contain valuable info on the guitar and how to play it.
Beginner Guitar Lessons

Beginner guitar lessons consist of you getting to know your first guitar. This guitar will probably be a nylon string acoustic which will enable you to learn what it takes to get music out of an instrument without relying too much on electronic enhancements and without cutting your fingers up on steel strings. What style of guitar do you want to learn?

Learn To Play A Guitar For Free

These free guitar lessons are ideal for anybody who needs to learn how to play a guitar from the ground up. You get musical theory, chord progressions, songs, the whole shebang.

How To Play Guitar Fast

Is it really possible for the average amateur guitar player to learn to play fast? When you watch somebody play fast on the guitar do you always wonder if you could learn to do that? Let us look at what resources we need to increase our own guitar playing speed on a regular basis.

Guitar Practice

Guitar practice can be fun. If you are a learner guitarist starting to find that guitar practice can be a drag, take another look at how you use your practice time. There is room for enjoyment in learning to play the guitar.

Essential Guitar Tabs For Beginners

When we wonder what guitar tab we need to get to begin to make up our repertoire, we usually think only about songs we like
We know that our choice in music does not suck in the slightest but if we are going to be playing our guitar and singing for audiences we need to get used to the idea that our taste in music will not match what our listeners want to hear.

Guitar Chord Charts

This hub will show you how to make the best use of free guitar chord charts that you can find online.
You can collect many chord charts and lyrics to your favorite songs to help you learn to play the guitar. Once you have started to learn using guitar chord charts you have bought or downloaded for free, you might see as you go along that you will need to know a little bit about musical theory to see how chords and scales fit together.

Online Guitar Tuning

This is probably the most important piece of knowledge that you can learn when it comes to tuning your guitar. The process of tuning your guitar to itself is one by which you tune each string to another string on the guitar. Basically, it means that you can tune the guitar without having to use a tuner or pitch tool.

Lead Guitar Secrets

Have you ever wanted to be a guitar hero? With the rise of air guitar competitions and the increase in the number of aspiring musicians following the philosophy of "It's not what you are but what you wear", lead guitar players aren't as thick on the ground as they once were. But that doesn't mean you need to be ashamed of your ambitions to be the front man in a band. There are still wise guitar gurus out there willing to share the secret rituals which will transform you into a lead guitarist. How would you like to build massive finger-strength and agility to assist you to fret difficult chords, make long-stretches across many frets, lessen instances of "sore" fingers, not to mention increase your playing speed.

Guitar Tabs For Beginners

As we gain some expertise on the guitar we find ourselves browsing lists of guitar tabs on the internet looking for songs we can play for our audiences
Trying to get together a repertoire when you are just starting out as a guitar player can be difficult. We usually start with our own choice in music but even the most egocentric performer knows that some kind of compromise with the musical taste of the general population will be necessary.

Online Guitar Lessons Blog

2007-11-29T02:39:00.000-08:00

This is a new blog which gathers online guitar lessons from many sources on the internet into a fantastic library of guitar lessons.
Online Guitar Lessons Blog

Guitar Playing Lessons

2007-11-14T12:47:00.000-08:00

A nice collection of free lessons from the lovely and talented Lana Garcia, guitar enthusiast extraordinaire.
Guitar Playing Lessons

Guitar Solo Blog

2007-11-07T11:41:00.000-08:00

The place to learn how to play great guitar solos. This blog is a collection of guitar solo publications, CD's, and DVD's. All genres have their own secrets of how to solo on guitar. There are many courses that can help you to learn to play jazz, Spanish guitar, or country guitar solos. The teaching materials featured on this blog are for guitarists who can read musical notation or play electric or acoustic guitar using tabs.
The Guitar Solo Blog

Acoustic guitar books

2007-11-01T04:05:00.000-07:00

Want to be a self-taught guitarist? Everything you need is available on the internet. Here are some information and reviews of books that can help you learn to play the guitar without a teacher. Find out how you can Teach Yourself To Play The Guitar
Learn to play flamenco guitar with some great music books at Play Flamenco Guitar
At Guitar Lesson Books you'll find reviews and detailed info on published guitar lessons. These guitar lessons are published in conventional music notation or tablature or both, and cover all genres of guitar music.
Another new blog gives details about the Best of the Beatles for Acoustic Guitar - the best acoustic guitar arrangements of The Beatles' songs. The Beatles For Acoustic Guitar
Classical guitar sheet music and tabs are hard to find in the electronic music age. Feel free to browse. Classical Guitar Sheet Music And Tabs

Guitar lesson reviews

2007-10-25T05:22:00.000-07:00

If you need to learn how to play the guitar, then a systematic course of guitar lessons is a must. There are guitar resources and lessons all over the web: where to find chord charts, scales, guitar tuners and fingering instructions; how to learn blues, rock, folk, jazz or flamenco.
Guitar Lessons Review

Acoustic And Electric Guitar Resources

2007-10-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

Some tips for electric guitar beginners
Electric guitars are established in our universe. There are even classical pieces composed for electric guitar. This is a new kind of musical instrument. Not only is the sound amplified by electronics but the sound itself is MADE by electronics.
Electric Guitar Lessons

The right way to tune an acoustic guitar
One common obstacle to learning to tune a guitar is a certain natural resistance to learning new things which is present in everybody to some degree. The prospect of learning to tune a guitar by ear can fill some people with a sense of dread.
The Best Acoustic Guitar Tuner

Guitar Lessons For Beginners

2007-09-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

Many people begin their musical education without much idea of the various styles of playing, and sometimes this can hold back their progress. The direction you're about to take makes a difference to how you begin. If you're going to take up classical guitar you'll begin with beginner's pieces. If you want to play jazz or lead guitar you'll need to learn chords and scales, and how to handle a plectrum for doing solos. To just accompany yourself singing you will need to learn chords only. Whatever you decide, Beginner Guitar Lessons is a good place to start.

Learn acoustic guitar with Christy

2007-09-24T04:35:00.000-07:00

Christy aims to take us along as she learns to play her new acoustic guitar. So far she has posted links to free and pay video guitar lessons. Here's Christy's acoustic guitar blog

Classical music played on the acoustic guitar

2007-08-28T03:35:00.000-07:00

Classical guitar music is seen by alot of people as being somehow inaccesible without years of study. But the term "clasical music" is very broad, and when put together with the guitar, it could refer as much to Latin music or The Beatles as to music from two hundred years ago! If you weren't seduced by the electric guitar during your childhood or teen years, what is it that attracts you to classical guitar music? Is it the delicacy of the Elizabethan dance music? The rich and vibrant sound of a great classical guitar? Maybe you'd like to dazzle and delight an audience like John Williams or Julian Bream.
Learning Classical Guitar Music

Looking for free guitar music

2007-08-28T03:30:00.000-07:00

Where can I find free guitar music on the internet? Sure, there are search engines, but sifting through irrelevant and duplicated results is very time consuming. If you are wondering what guitar music can be had for free, take a look through the links we have here.

Free Guitar Music

Rhythm And Lead Guitar

2007-08-21T18:20:00.001-07:00

So much terminology, so many things to learn - rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums, bass, the phone number of the drunk chick in the front row. Let's start with lead guitar. The lead guitarist is the dude who plays the tunes. When the singer stops singing, and one of the guys with guitars starts playing a bunch of notes, he's the lead guitarist. Sometimes the notes he is playing are what we call an "improvised solo". This means the guitar dude is making up the music as he goes along. He learns some sets of notes called scales, and he gets to know where on the guitar neck he needs to play his scales to fit in with the key of the song the band is playing. Sometimes he will be basing his solo, one way or another, on a riff or melody he learned from listening to, and trying to play, other people's music.
The guitar player who just strums chords is the rhythm guitarist. He learns the basic chords to the songs, sometimes adding chords of his own, and uses the srumming patterns of the song as the basis for his own interpretation of the song. So there's a little room there for the rhythm guitar player to do some creative stuff.
The lead guitarist needs to learn judicious use of the whammy bar and the effects pedals as well as lead guitar playing techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs and using up and'or down strokes of the plectrum. But if you want to learn to play lead guitar, it's best to start with rhythm guitar techniques.More info on learning to play lead guitar!

What about the bass guitar?

2007-08-21T04:40:00.000-07:00

The Electric bass guitar has been around since the 1920's when Lloyd Loar designed the first electric double bass and has become the standard bass instrument for popular modern music, and, through all its changes in design, remains the backbone of rock. As time goes on the electric bass guitar is becoming more and more popular. It has almost totally superseded the old upright acoustic bass. It provides the low-pitched bassline and bass runs in pop, rock and jazz. Bass players also do nifty solos in jazz, fusion, and latin music.
Bass Guitar Music

How to tune your guitar online

2007-08-17T02:47:00.000-07:00

Guitar Tuning Online
Links to online guitar tuners as well as lessons on guitar tuning and a look at electronic guitar tuners you can use independently of your computer. To put things in perspective ww are also given lessons on how to tune your guitar to without using a tuner!

Explore these links for more guitar lessons and info

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Lead Guitar Secrets Blog
Articles and advice on becoming a lead guitar player.

Guitar Lesson Links At Amazon
Books, DVD's, guitars, beginners packages - just browse through!

The Ultimate Online Guitar Lessons
Unlike guitar books, DVDs, and traditional teaching methods, JamPlay provides a guitar teaching service and not just a 1 time product. They are constantly finding new instructors, filming new lessons, and teaching you new techniques.

Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free
I'd like to express my support for Ricky Sharples who is building a blog aimed at finding genuinely useful free resources for guitarists and guitar students.